From Augustus to Nero : An Intermediate Latin Reader

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From Augustus to Nero : An Intermediate Latin ReaderThis reader contains selections from Tacitus, Suetonius and Seneca on the first five Roman emperors. They present a dark world of murder, mayhem, debauchery and palace intrigue: Augustus with his firm moral policies and secret adulterous affairs; the sour and depraved Tiberius; the extravagance and madness of Caligula; the slobbering and ineffective Claudius; and Nero with his absurd artistic pretensions. Exciting, horrific and moving, the selections

A penetrating account of Greek tragedy

and the Palatine and Capitoline Hills

to songs of travel and brigands

recognise an ancient bond of hospitality and exchange gifts on the battlefield

ancient Greek tragedy has had an extraordinarily wide influence: many of the surviving plays are still part of the theatrical repertoire

Book C1 - A (individual ISBN 9789607779847)

and should therefore increasingly interest university departments and Examination Boards seeking to break away from the conventional choices of the first and third decades

In this way

presents the arguments to the modern reader in a clear and accessible form

εξερευνά μαζί του τη γύρω περιοχή

especially between 1919 and 1936

The Life of Apollonius is formally a biography (by far the longest that survives from antiquity)

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